2014 Buscarino Double top Cabaret Crossover Guitar

The Cabaret is the perfect blend of traditional classical guitar and an acoustic archtop guitar. Specifically designed to meet the needs of the jazz or fingerstyle player, the Cabaret is based on the Herman Hauser I classical guitar design. The Cabaret incorporates traditional classical building methods with the modern innovations necessary for today’s jazz and fingerstyle playing. The graceful cutaway facilitates greater access for playing the upper register of the fretboard. Its carved back, unique among nylon-string guitars, enhances the lower midrange while aiding in projection. The two-way adjustable truss-rod gives easy access at the headstock for a perfect set-up. The Barbera pickup system amplifies this guitar’s acoustic tone accurately for each string.  Some light markings on the guitar from occasional playing out as well as around the bottom of the pickguard where a previous plastic one had been removed. This guitar now includes John’s handmade microthin wood pickguard, installed after the demo below was made. The somewhat discernable hairline cracks where the soundboards meet is fairly normal according to John Buscarino, and not at all structural or through the wood--it has been unchanged for the past 6 yrs. Please email me with any other questions--Thanks for checking it out! Ken

SPECIFICATIONS (upgrades +$2,250)

2014 Buscarino Double top Cabaret Crossover Guitar

BODY WIDTh           14 3/8"

BODY DEPTh          tapered from 3 3/4" to 4"

neck:                      one piece quarter-sawn honduras mahogany 1 15/16" 

body wood:         east indian or bolivian rosewood

top wood:            double top with western red cedar inside and  engelmann spruce outside

sound hole:        round with classic rosette

cutaway:              single venetian

finish:                   high gloss nitrocellulose lacquer

binding:                curly koa

bracing: Adirondak spruce latttice, mahogany flying braces

fingerboard:      macassar ebony, 30" radius

scale:                    25 1/2" 20 frets

frets:                    nickel silver

headstock:        macassar ebony veneer

tuners:                Premium Gotoh.

side port: Handcarved Fleur De Lis, Floral

truss rod:          two way adjustable

pickup:                 Barbera Soloist pickup system

bridge:                 brazilian rosewood variable DOWN-BEARING bridge

case:                    Crossrock lite